St Michaels University School - Black Red and Blue Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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Another noteworthy occasion during the year took place on Sunday, the 16th May, 1976, when Dean Brian Whitlow of Christ Church Cathedral came in his capacity as School Visitor to unveil and dedicate three memorial plagues. The first tablet honours the founders of University School- The Bev. VV.VV. Bolton, Mr. J.C. Barnacle and Captain BV. Harvey, the second pays tribute to Mr. Kyrle C. Symons and Edith A. Symons, who founded that amazing institution, St. Michaels School, whilst the third commemorates the teaching service of Mr. Tom Keble and his wife l-lelen, who for many years were closely connected with the school. A significant step forward was taken on the Sunday after the Feast of the Ascension t3Oth May, 19761. On that day, the Chapel service was conducted entirely by boys. The reader of the service and preacher was Keith Jones. tThe text of his sermon is appended to this reporti Chris Turner and Clark Blackstock read the lessons. John l-lumphrey read the prayers, and David Hamilton played the organ. ln addition, the school choir was in attendance to lead the hymns and sing an anthem. lt was such an inspiring occasion, and so well attended by staff, parents and boys, that it has been decided that a 'Boys' Sunday must become an annual event. For there can be little doubt that, by having to undergo the discipline of preparing the details themselves - the lessons, the prayers, hymns, anthem and address -the boys not only experience the joy of worship at a deeper level than is otherwise possible, but also learn most valuable lessons about life, discovering within themselves, perhaps for the first time, a whole new range of unsuspected thoughts, aspirations and ideals. So we came finally to our closing service on the 18th May, 1976. It was fitting that on this solemn occasion, when so many of the senior boys reached the end of their school careers, we were addressed by the Bishop of British Columbia, the Bight Bev. FB. Gartrell. For the grace and wisdom of his message we express here our sincere gratitude. CDB. Holy Matrimony. On the 29th December, 1976, by the Bev. A.J. Mowat, James Edward Lytton Wenman and Susan Marilyn Gray. Boys' Sunday: 30th May, 1976. Sermon preached in Chapel by Keith Jones, Grade 12. Text: St. Mark 16, verse 15: And Jesus said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16 vv. 14-20 The eleven disciples of Christ, of whom Saint Mark is speaking were the first Christian teachers, the first priests. They were needed then to guard the gospel and enlarge the number of the faithful. So too at this time, two thousand years later, men are needed to do these things. Thus, for example, Christian teachers and priests are needed in the third world - or developing nations - to teach the faith, construct and manage schools, build hospitals, churches and orphanages. The religious order responsible in Canada for forwarding this good work 13

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sfI-'Y XLS: C-tf',,, ,7f.'bf I1 .sqm THE CHAPEL lt has been another strenuous year for the Chapel. The increase in the school enrolment obliged us to accommodate many activities other than the normal weekday and Sunday services. That these events - concerts, debates, academic classes, lectures, music practices and general assemblies - took place without undue strain or unseemliness testifies to the reverence the Chapel commands in the minds of the boys. Ivluch credit, hovvever, is due tothe firm and courteous manner in vvhich the Chapel officers exercised control. Clark Blaclfstoclc. John Humphrey and Michael Cottrell were unceasingly vigilant. They were equal to every occasion. We ovve them our thanks. As regards the record of services, mention must be made first of the Harvest Festival on the 5th October, 1975. The preacher vvas the Flight Flev, RJ. Pierce, formerly the Ordinary in the bleak. northerly diocese of Athabasca. In the tradition of episcopal visitors. he succeeded during the course of his sermon in obtaining from the Headmaster a promise of a half-holiday, thereby endearing himself to the boys for evermorel Then, in November, vve held our customary Remembrance Servicer lvlr. VVRG. Vvenman, President of the Old Boys' Association, read the lesson: the Headmaster read the Honour Roll: Last Post and Reveille vvere sounded by Warrant Officer R. Derry of HMCS. Nadeng and wreaths in honour of the fallen were presented by Head Boy, Tom Hosie, Douglas Bertram, and Tom Blades. T2

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it .e' seas s the Scarooro Foreign Mission Society. lt trains and supports men ri ,grcut ine tnird world - in countries like Brazil. the Bahamas. the Dominican Fei up ic. Guyana Japan the Phillipines and the islands of St. Vincent and St. u.c it lt includes men like Father Gerard lvlcliernan vvho spent 15 years and izr or to that vvorked for 18 years in the missions of China, Father Lewis Hevver, in Bray 1.-vho says that Brazilian farmers often try to raise a family often on fifty :ents a day. and Father Gerry Kelly,vvho has peen a missionary in Japan for 25 Lili , C-,A ,J Cluite apart from the intellectual disciplines required, a candidate for this 'nn str, must undergo a spiritual discipline as vvell. He has to lay aside most material considerations and preoccupationsr Things that he may have once noped to have, to see or to do. vvill in fact never he enjoyed or never he seen. This self denial is vvillingly accepted so that a more excellent result can he produced in the missionary vvork, This is the price that is paid in order to help an orphan learn to read and vvriter This is what it takes to effectively teach a farmer in India or Brazil to manage his land more productively and grovv better crops ln short. this 's the reason vvhy dovvn the ages the disciplines of Christ have lapoured to do His vvill not for any revvard for themselves. out for the joy of seeing others enter into the fruits of the gospel. So it is that wherever poverty and distress exist in the vvorld, men still offer themselves in Gods name to the vvork of education and relief, Any person vvho feels in his heart that this is perhaps what he vvould like to do must realize apove all that it is a hard decision to make. No one else can make it for him. Thus. to enter the Roman Catholic religious priesthood it is necessary for a man to make three vovvs, He has to promise three things. As an ordained minister of Christs Holy Catholic Church he vvill never he aple to have a family of his own. He vvill never experience the joy of having a son, ln other vvords he renounces the joys of having a family, The second is the vovv of poverty. that all vvorldly and material pleasures and interests vvill oe laid aside and that instead a simple vvay of life vvill pe lived. Essentially this means that the priest promises to share vvhat little he has vvith those vvho have less. Then thirdly there is the vovv of ohedience. the promise that he will faithfully follovv the laws of God and the lawful instructions of his church superiors, Bishop Pierce at Harvest Thanksgiving 1975 with Mr. N. Hurrle, M. Endean, Rev. C. Blencoe. the Headmaster. lvl Cottrell, Ct Blackstock and J Humphrey, 111